Improvement in whips



F. HOPKINS.

W'HIPS.

N0. 193,872. 'Patented 1877.

IN'VENTOR:

ATTORNEYS.

-UNITED STATES PA'rEfr EICE.

FRANK .HOPKINS, OF HELENA, MONTANA TERRITORY.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,872, dated August7, 1877; application lcd June 18, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Bc it known that I, FRANK HOPKlNS,of Helena,1n the county of Lewis and Clarke and Territory of Montana, haveinvented a new and Improved Whip, of which the following is aspecification:

This invention has relation to whips; and the nature of my invention andimprovement consists, mainly, in asnap-ring linked to a swivel, which isapplied to a fer-rule on the end of the whip-stock, as will behereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawing, the igure is a View., partly in section, showingmy improved mode of applying a whip-lash to the handle or staff.

The letter A designates a whip staff 0r handle, on which is screwed aferrule, B, having a short tube, a, rigidly secured into one end, so asto form a shoulder for the spherical head of a swivel, O.

In practice I shall construct the ferrule so that a portion of it,without screw-threads, will extend over the steif, as indicated at c.

The swivel C consists of a spherical head, a

as shown.

ring afford a safe and durable attachment forj the whip-lash, and allowperfect freedom of motion thereto.

In practice I shall construct the ferrule B of one piece, with ashoulder for the ball of the swivel O.

Haviu g thus described my inventioi1,I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The combination, with al whip-stock, of the endt'errulc, provided with a socket at its outer end, a swivel held in thesocket, and a snap-l ring linked to the swivel for holding the lash,

all arranged and constructed substantially as shown and described.

FRANK HOPKINS.

Witnesses:

RoBT. C. WALLACE, CHARLES KLANE.

